Dolly Steering Controller for Enhancing Low- and High-Speed Performance of High Capacity Vehicles

Dolly Steering Controller for Enhancing Low- and High-Speed Performance of High Capacity Vehicles

Tomar, A.S.
Kalose, A.
Kural, K.
Pauwelussen, J.

2020

The adaptation of high capacity vehicles (HCVs) into existing commercial vehicle fleets have been considered a potential solution for reducing emissions, operational costs and infrastructure damages. However, due to increased length and number of articulations, there are challenges associated with HCVs with regard to their manoeuvrability at low-speeds and stability at high-speeds. This paper presents a Virtual Rigid Axle Command Steering control strategy for dolly steering, due to which both low- and high-speed performance of HCVs may be improved significantly compared to their conventional version with nonsteered dolly. To demonstrate this, two HCVs, namely, A-double (tractorsemitrailer-dolly-semitrailer) and LHV-D (truck-dolly-semitrailer) are considered in this work.

Dolly steering controller
High capacity vehicles
Low- and high-speed performance

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:82f77e88-7163-4e4d-8878-753a5783383b

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38077-9_148

955362

Springer

9783030380762

2195-4356

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 26th Symposium of the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics, IAVSD 2019, 12 August 2019 through 16 August 2019, 1278-1287

conference paper